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26146 PETA vs. leathermen -- rank: 1000

[ok now they've gone too far!] <http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200301\CUL20030117d.html> Animal 'Rights' Activists Confront Homosexuals Over Leather 'Pride' By Michael L. Betsch CNSNews.com Staff Writer January 17, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - Hundreds of leather-clad homosexuals hailing from across the country were confronted by animal "rights" activists Friday as they kicked off Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend in Washington, D.C. Avoiding condemnation of the ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 11:36:21 PST 2003

26147 subject change (was Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #7260 -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Saddam's no threat to the entire world, true; and he's no real threat to the >continental US, obviously. And Al Qaeda is. I thought they were supposed to be enemy #1, but we've pretty much forgotten about them. > But he is violent and will cross borders if he >thinks he can get away with it -- a small scale imperialist, but one all the >same. Why is that our concern? Why is it that the countries closest to Iraq, and presumably the most at risk, aren't leadin ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 11:31:59 PST 2003

26148 Great News From David Horowitz -- rank: 1000

Steven McGraw wrote: >Not to give too much credit to horowitz, who is merely repeating what >leftists already know, but I have been wondering about this myself. If >they're as eager to smear the protesters as everyone seems to think, why >aren't the networks and major papers making a bigger deal out of the >leadership and their creepy politics? Could it be laziness? Bias? Honest >stupidity? Several possibilities: there's a lot of sympathy for an antiwar position among the e ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 11:19:30 PST 2003

26149 subject change (was Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #7260 -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I don't necessarily think that, and my doubts about the "noble" urges >driving the war talk have been posted. But for all the state violence the >USG can be accused of, it cannot be compared to a dictatorship like >Saddam's. The American experience, for all the injustice, is still a >progressive one, an observation that I know will cause those who view this >country as a Nazi state to shake their heads in contempt. Not me. I think there's a lot t ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 09:12:05 PST 2003

26150 shameless spousal promotion -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030203&s=featherstone> January 20, 2003 Marching for Peace in Washington by Liza Featherstone The Alaskans for Peace didn't mind the weather; not only are they used to bitter cold, but one of them was wearing a polar bear costume. Don Muller, and his friend "Brian the Polar Bear" had traveled from Sitka, Alaska to join a mass protest on Washington, DC's National Mall on Saturday, to honor Martin Luther King and protest the Bush Administ ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 08:46:58 PST 2003

26151 subject change (was Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #7260 -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >As for the Hitchens/Nolan concept of what's to come, all I can say is, "If >only." If there were a genuine desire to democratize Iraq, or to allow the >Iraqis to rule themselves free of a fascist thug, then I'd have no problem >with knocking Saddam out (and really don't anyway). He's got to go and will >go. How and under what conditions remain to be seen. I'm no fan of Saddam. He was a monster when he was doing the CIA's work, and he's a monster now ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 08:27:03 PST 2003

26152 Public Campaign poster -- rank: 1000

[from Micah Sifry] >Today, Public Campaign is launching a new poster and associated >website aimed at attacking the way all of Washington has turned into >an extension of corporate America and Wall Street. The poster photo >captures the real "State of the Union," showing Bush speaking to the >merged floors of Congress and the stock market--or what we like to >call the trading floor of Congress, where politicians exchange our >tax dollars for campaign contributions ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 21 08:15:00 PST 2003

26153 bourgeois anguish over Argentina -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 20, 2003 Argentina's New Bailout ONE YEAR AGO, as Argentina wallowed through one of the worst economic and political storms in its history, two outcomes were commonly forecast: Either its weak government would muster the strength to formulate and implement a stabilization program approved by the International Monetary Fund, or the country would plunge into an abyss of hyperinflation, plummeting production and, possibly, political chaos. In fact, neither has happened. Pr ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 15:05:25 PST 2003

26154 Buckley and Posner -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I was thinking Panopicon-like. Just make people do what you want-- >especially work. We are getting there. That's not very free market - it's directly coercive. Money's supposed to do the trick, and money makes it all look like free choice. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 13:51:06 PST 2003

26155 Buckley and Posner -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Bentham. How?

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 13:45:01 PST 2003

26156 Community Colleges -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Justin wrote: >> you Stalinist apologist, signer of evil petitions! jks > >Yes, a petition in favor of the "Serbian patriot" Milosevic qualifies as >morally disgusting. This whole topic is done to death. Positions are well known, no minds are going to be changed, and no fresh arguments have presented themselves. Enough from all sides. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 13:16:30 PST 2003

26157 Recycling is Bad? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >At the first Midwest Conference of Radical Scholars and Activists a left >geographer from Northwestern read an excellent paper (which I never got >a hard copy of) that demonstrated pretty conclusively that (a) recycling >was essentially just a service to a few corporations and (b) was a >serious energy drain. It takes a good deal more energy to turn waste >paper into paper than to turn wood chips into paper. Didn't Jim O'Connor argue against recycling in an i ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 12:15:09 PST 2003

26158 Community Colleges -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I saw a reference someplace -- perhaps an ad in either the NLRB or th >LRB -- to a group or business which arranges acquaintances between men >and women from a select group of universities. It advertises in the Yale Alumni Magazine too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 11:56:36 PST 2003

26159 Moscow's Sakharov museum attacked by vandals -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >The Sakharov museum, dedicated to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, has >been vandalized by a group of people outraged at an exhibition on religion, >the museum director told AFP on Sunday. Whatever happened to the Soviet-era Museum(s) of Atheism? I always loved that concept. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 20 11:17:19 PST 2003

26160 Fwd: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #7260 -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> To: " owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #7260 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:07:59 -0800 In passing on an anecdote on the general subject of "famous people I know", Christopher Hitchens wrote: >In his area >of Iraq, "regime change" has already occurred. There are >dozens of newspape ...

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